Dr Peter Stanley [ 9/Feb/15 ]

Post date: Feb 8, 2015 2:17:35 AM

Jerry Guirguis interview Professor Peter Stanley, is an Australian historian and Research Professor at the University of New South Wales [ UNSW ] in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, Dr Stanley will be speaking to us about what the Australians got up to in Egypt during WW1, on 96.5FM - the Egyptian radio show [ Monday 9^th Feb 2015, 6:30pm Melbourne ].

We have the following list of guests to be interviewed over the next months;

9th Feb 2015 - Professor Peter Stanley [ UNSW ]

16th Feb 2015 - Returned & Services League [ RSL Victorian Branch ] - Brigadier Keith Rossi - Victoria Historian

9th Mar 2015 - Egyptian Minister for International Cooperation

16th Mar 2015 - Egypt Assistant Foreign Minister - Mohamed Khairat

23rd Mar 2015 - H.E. Barney Riley - New Zealand Ambassador to Egypt

30th Mar 2015 - H.E. Dr Ralph King - Australian Ambassador to Egypt

25th Apr 2015 - Anzac day dawn service Cairo Egypt [ Anzac-Egypt 2015 Tour attending ]

Anzac-Egypt 2015 Tour [ please contact Jerry Guirguis on jerry.guirguis@gmail.com

This year, on 25ht April 21015, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) will commemorate it’s Centenary, Anzac was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that was formed in Egypt in 1915, our radio station [ 95.5FM – Egyptian radio show, Melbourne Australia, English Edition ] have been covering the Anzac Day Dawn service that's held in Cairo Egypt with our Australian Ambassador [ Dr Ralph King ] since 2013.

This year 2015, we understand it will be New Zealand - Egypt Embassy’s turn to host the Centenary of Anzac, we are in the process of putting the final stages of our tour, to visit Egypt and attend the dawn service on 25^th April 2015 [ ANZAC – Egypt 2015 tour ], held at the Cairo Commonwealth Grave Cemetery.

book your ticket for ~ ~ Fly out Saturday 18^th April 2015 – leaving Cairo-Egypt Friday 1^st May 2015

I am indebted to the support of the Australian Army History Unit, especially;

Dr Andrew Richardson

Historian

Australian Army History Unit

http://www.army.gov.au/Our-history/Army-History-Unit

Also make sure you visit;

Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne

ph. 03 9661 8100

www.shrine.org.au

6:30pm – Our 1^st special guests tonight is Dr Peter Alan Stanley;

2007–2013 was Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia.

1980 – 2007, Peter was an historian and curator at the Australian War Memorial, including as head of the Historical Research Section and Principal Historian

Written [ 25 ] books about Australia and the Great War

[ Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli, Men of Mont St Quentin, Bad Characters and Digger Smith and Australia's Great War, +++plus more ]

Peter Stanley mentioned in the interview;

" El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa, edited by Jill Edwards, published in 2012 by the American University in Cairo Press.

it came out of a book that Mark Johnston and Dr Peter Stanley published in 2002

Alamein : the Australian Story (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2002 "

Hi and welcome, can we start with ......................

Sep- 2002, you toured Egypt and Crete, part of Australian War Memorial-Imperial War Museum Joint Study;

Q1] What was you finding ?

Nov 1914 – Australian Imperial Force, arrive in Egypt and set up camp and start their military training at Mena – Cairo

28^th Jan 1915 – a skirmish/battle at Suez Canal

Q2] Any Australians got involved in that ?